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An East Hampton shooting range “for the common man” has been allegedly peppering the houses of wealthy Hamptonites with bullets, igniting a slobs-versus-snobs battle …

DEUS EX MACHINA

Contrary to popular belief, religion isn’t dying—it’s mutating, with Silicon Valley’s techno-utopians preaching a gospel of self-optimization and A.I. worship …

BUNKER LOGIC

Forget super-yachts and fine art—what billionaires really want are their own private golf clubs, built to their specifications and with extremely restricted membership …

NANNY STATE

On the Upper East Side, paranoid parents are stalking their children’s nannies using Facebook groups, spycams, and even private detectives …

THE ANXIETY OF AFFLUENCE

Luxury brands are increasingly selling their products only to handpicked clients. So how do you get on the list?

REMEMBRANCE OF OMNISHAMBLES PAST

Twenty years ago, Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It satirized the U.K.’s government with a mix of improv and ingeniously offensive language. Its creators and cast recall its raucous beginnings …

CAT THAT GOT THE CREAM

The actress Julie Newmar recounts her whirlwind and passionate affair with the Vanderbilt heir Douglas Burden, which married the worlds of Hollywood glamour and East Coast aristocracy—before ending in heartbreak …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Lauren Sánchez’s Paris invasion … the quirks that made Nadal great … the man behind Bonnie and Clyde and Kramer vs. Kramer, remembered … the enduring greatness of “Mafalda”—like “Peanuts,” but political … Kristin Davis—Sex and the City’s Charlotte York—reveals her favorite things … Will Kristi Noem top this week’s Attention-Whore Index Poll?

Issue No. 306

The View from Here Is Silicon Valley a bastion of rationalism? Or the cradle of a strange new faith?

By Tara Isabella Burton

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The New Pay to Play Private golf clubs have always been symbols of wealth and exclusivity, but today there are more new ones than ever before, and they’re only getting more difficult to join

By William D. Cohan

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The Liberation of Paris, Lauren Sánchez–Style If there were awards for bachelorette parties, Jeff Bezos’s fiancée would have won big for her storming of the Seine

By Marina Hyde

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Bullets over East Hampton A shooting range “for the common man” has been accused of peppering the houses of wealthy residents with stray bullets. Who’ll wave the white flag first?

By Carrie Monahan

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In the Name of the Father

What do dads want? What do dads need? AIR SUPPLY has answers to the perennial Father’s Day question. Is your man thinning? There’s Hårklinikken Hair Gain Extract for that. Perhaps he’s perfecting his swing. Try the Rapsodo golf monitor. Maybe he’d like a smooth sip of a sexy gin. Pour him a Seventy One. We’ve got gadgets, watches, slippers, and more

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Adam Brown’s Favorite Things The founder of Orlebar Brown, known for its tailored swim shorts inspired by Savile Row, knows a thing or two about sun holidays

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Daddy Issues When it comes to claiming responsibility for his son Eric, Trump points his short fingers at Biden

By Andy Borowitz

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The Attention-Whore Index Lauren Sánchez is inescapable, Kristi Noem is inexcusable, and Melania Trump is invisible

By George Kalogerakis

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SPARKLE Boucheron What happens when you combine a line of diamonds, a grosgrain ribbon, the cobblestones of Place Vendôme, and architectural…

DINE Le Crocodile One of my favorite recent discoveries is Club du Vin—a cozy, elegant dinner party held in the cellar of Brooklyn’s French…

LOOK Father and Child Fatherhood has never looked so good. Designer Wes Gordon, former Giants quarterback Eli Manning, filmmaker…

READ Notorious If Maureen Dowd calls to interview you, hang up. Then go out and buy her latest book, Notorious—a superb collection of profiles…

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READ Art Comes from Art Art Comes from Art—written by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Rachel Teagle, Eve Aschheim, and Lauren Palmor—pays homage to…

SPARKLE Boucheron What happens when you combine a line of diamonds, a grosgrain ribbon, the cobblestones of Place Vendôme, and architectural…

DINE Le Crocodile One of my favorite recent discoveries is Club du Vin—a cozy, elegant dinner party held in the cellar of Brooklyn’s French…

LOOK Father and Child Fatherhood has never looked so good. Designer Wes Gordon, former Giants quarterback Eli Manning, filmmaker…

READ Notorious If Maureen Dowd calls to interview you, hang up. Then go out and buy her latest book, Notorious—a superb collection of profiles…

consult Hårklinikken Of all the beauty rituals we’ve come to accept as routine, tending to the scalp rarely makes the cut. Hårklinikken is out to change…

READ Art Comes from Art Art Comes from Art—written by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Rachel Teagle, Eve Aschheim, and Lauren Palmor—pays homage to…

The Price of Laughter As Trump’s tariffs set in, Americans are getting hit right in the funny bone

By John Ficarra

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The Nannies Aren’t Alright Spying, snitching, AirTagging toddlers … A Nanny Diaries–style Facebook group is a breeding ground for paranoid Upper East Side moms

By Josie Ensor

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Holding Court Former tennis world No. 1 Rafael Nadal was as much a worrier in his sport as he was a warrior, his nervous habits extending from elaborate pre-point rituals to clocking issues with the courts he won Grand Slams on

By Christopher Clarey

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That’s Rich Luxury brands are gatekeeping access to their most coveted items—and some wealthy shoppers are fed up

By Mark Ellwood

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Wendell Jamieson On

Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

by Tim Bouverie

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The Making of The Thick of It: Part I Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, and others tell the story of how the profanity-laced, pitch-black political Britcom came to be, 20 years on

By Tim Jonze

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Dive In! From Spain to India to Mexico, a new coffee-table book showcases the world’s most stunning swimming pools

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The pool at the architect Ricardo Bofill’s family home in Mont-ras, Spain, designed in 1970 by Bofill and his father, the builder Emilio Bofill.

*Top, Poolside Gossip,* by Slim Aarons, 1970; *above,* the diving board at the Kursaal beach club in Ostia, Italy, by Attilio Lapadula, 1950.

The Sky Pool at Embassy Gardens, a residential development in London, by EcoWorld Ballymore, 2020.

*Top,* Les Bain des Docks, a public bathing complex in Le Havre, France, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, 2008; *above,* the pool at the Berkeley City Club, in California, by Julia Morgan, 1929.

The Thermae Bath Spa, in Bath, England, by Nicholas Grimshaw, 2006.

*Top,* the exterior of Cuadra San Cristóbal, an estate outside of Mexico City, by Luis Barragán, 1966; *above,* Palmyra House, a private residence in Alibag, India, by Bijoy Jain, 2008.

Palazzo delle Terme Berzieri, a pool at the Foro Italico sports complex, in Rome, by Costantino Costantini, 1938.

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“Your parents sent you a care package of cookies, dorm essentials, and an immigration attorney.”

Billionaire Boys’ Golf Club On this week’s podcast, William D. Cohan reports on the latest power move for .01-percenters

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An Affair to Remember The legendary Broadway and Hollywood actress—the first to portray Catwoman—recalls her 1950s romance with an adventurous descendant of the Vanderbilt family

By Julie Newmar

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

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The Mouths of Babes Imagine Lucy from “Peanuts” with the politics of John Lennon and you’ve got “Mafalda,” a comic strip whose millions of fans included Gabriel García Márquez

By Dorian Lynskey

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The Paris of the Future A once sleepy corner of the Marais neighborhood gets an upgrade from the new SO/ Paris hotel

By Marcia DeSanctis

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Jonah Reider The chef who turned his college dorm room into a popular New York restaurant has found fans in everyone from Jude Law to Jason Bateman

By Elena Clavarino

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From Bonnie and Clyde to Kramer vs. Kramer The ultra-violent screenplay he co-wrote for Bonnie and Clyde made his name. But Robert Benton’s real specialty was depicting frailty and family struggles

By Molly Haskell

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Kristin Davis

The Sex and the City star answers 33 of life’s most pressing questions

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An afternoon in Washington Square Park, of which Henry James once wrote, “This portion of New York appears to many persons the most delectable.”

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The View from Here Is Silicon Valley a bastion of rationalism? Or the cradle of a strange new faith?

The New Pay to Play Private golf clubs have always been symbols of wealth and exclusivity, but today there are more new ones than ever before, and they’re only getting more difficult to join

The Liberation of Paris, Lauren Sánchez–Style If there were awards for bachelorette parties, Jeff Bezos’s fiancée would have won big for her storming of the Seine

Bullets over East Hampton A shooting range “for the common man” has been accused of peppering the houses of wealthy residents with stray bullets. Who’ll wave the white flag first?

Adam Brown’s Favorite Things The founder of Orlebar Brown, known for its tailored swim shorts inspired by Savile Row, knows a thing or two about sun holidays

Daddy Issues When it comes to claiming responsibility for his son Eric, Trump points his short fingers at Biden

The Attention-Whore Index Lauren Sánchez is inescapable, Kristi Noem is inexcusable, and Melania Trump is invisible

The Price of Laughter As Trump’s tariffs set in, Americans are getting hit right in the funny bone

The Nannies Aren’t Alright Spying, snitching, AirTagging toddlers … A Nanny Diaries–style Facebook group is a breeding ground for paranoid Upper East Side moms

Holding Court Former tennis world No. 1 Rafael Nadal was as much a worrier in his sport as he was a warrior, his nervous habits extending from elaborate pre-point rituals to clocking issues with the courts he won Grand Slams on

That’s Rich Luxury brands are gatekeeping access to their most coveted items—and some wealthy shoppers are fed up

The Making of The Thick of It: Part I Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, and others tell the story of how the profanity-laced, pitch-black political Britcom came to be, 20 years on

Dive In! From Spain to India to Mexico, a new coffee-table book showcases the world’s most stunning swimming pools

Billionaire Boys’ Golf Club On this week’s podcast, William D. Cohan reports on the latest power move for .01-percenters

A Robert Ryman retrospective goes up at David Zwirner’s Hong Kong outpost, marking the monochrome painter’s first solo exhibition in Greater China

An Affair to Remember The legendary Broadway and Hollywood actress—the first to portray Catwoman—recalls her 1950s romance with an adventurous descendant of the Vanderbilt family

The Mouths of Babes Imagine Lucy from “Peanuts” with the politics of John Lennon and you’ve got “Mafalda,” a comic strip whose millions of fans included Gabriel García Márquez

The Paris of the Future A once sleepy corner of the Marais neighborhood gets an upgrade from the new SO/ Paris hotel

Jonah Reider The chef who turned his college dorm room into a popular New York restaurant has found fans in everyone from Jude Law to Jason Bateman

From Bonnie and Clyde to Kramer vs. Kramer The ultra-violent screenplay he co-wrote for Bonnie and Clyde made his name. But Robert Benton’s real specialty was depicting frailty and family struggles

The Sex and the City star answers 33 of life’s most pressing questions

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In Memoriam